Type casting

Seth wanted to be a clown for Halloween. We thought that was hilarious, because he's always been a clown, from day one. He doesn't even need a costume. If people ask what he is when he's trick or treating, we'll just smile and say "He's a Clown. . . No, really. Check him out!" But we decided to go with the costume thing anyway, to clear it up for everyone who doesn't have the opportunity to know him as well.

And if one needs any experience to land the job of being a clown for Halloween, here's Seth's portfolio:











Funny to his very core.

We love you Sara!

We all went to see Sara in her big theatrical debut and she did an excellent job. Best singing and dancing bird we ever saw, by far. And the boys still stomp around the house singing, "Boom bahdah boom bahdah boom bahada boom! We are the very scary frowny face tribe. . ."

Good job Sara. Keep it up! We love you!

Seth hits the big 3

On his birthday morning they were both so excited, they wanted to do a photo shoot. They love having pictures taken of them. They pose it and then ask for a picture.


Seth had fallen in love with this toy at the store the other day, ("can we bring this home??"). He was so cute, we knew we had the winner. So when he saw it on his birthday morning he could hardly contain himself. "Oh!! You got my thing!! I LIKE it!!"

After that it was a good 25 minutes before he could be coaxed away to open anything else. He even gave it some pretty valiant efforts, turning away and going towards another present for a few seconds before hurrying back to his race track and saying, "I can't!" John and I were cracking up watching his intensity with it.

During the entire rest of the day, he and Jonthan probably spent only a half hour of their awake time away from it. I love that it has TWO tracks and TWO cars, so they can both be fully involved.

So then after a while he opened his tractor from Mom and Dad A, and got a huge kick out of that. He also found that it was great at fixing. . .his race track.

After many failed attempts at diverting his attention from the newfound joy of his life, we decided to save his other presents (some great puzzles that they love working on, and an adorable dog puppet from my parents, which he promptly hugged and named Weewoy) for later in the day, after John got home from work. That worked out great, and he was able to love those things when they came. Seth is hilarous with the puzzles. He thinks about it so hard that he actually holds his breath and lets it out in labored grunts while he puts puzzles together, or even while he watches Jonathan put one together.

Note his attention on the cars. . .

Still the cars. . . Seth! We've lit the candles! . . . Seth! Fire!!

There, his cars are all settled now just how he wants them, and he's finally able to notice that there's a huge chocolate cake with three glowing flames, right in front of him.

And does a fabulous job blowing it all out first try. He's had lots of good examples lately with birthdays of family and neighbors.

By the end of the day he was gracefully accepting the fact that he's now three, not two, like he's been for his entire life as far as he can remember. Imagine a change like that. You are no longer what you have ALWAYS been. Now you're three.

We love our Seth.

On a fieldtrip to the farm. . .

Yep, along with Jonathan's other firsts, we went on his first fieldtrip. Seth and I came along of course. Who want's to miss out on a fieldtrip?? Especially one to Hee Haw Farms! :) For weeks before the big day, Jonthan told everyone he saw about the upcoming event. When they asked where he would be going, he always said, "On a bus!" What could be cooler than that?

There was a whole playhouse of corn to jump around in, a corn maze, a hay ride, farm animals - the whole works.

The most notable animal of which was a pig that was over 1000 pounds. Named Leroy. (Or, "Weewoy" to Seth, just don't tell the pig we called him that.)

He was massive. That's the combined weight of Jonathan's entire kindgergarten class. . . I'll just let that soak in for a minute.

And the only thing that came to my mind when I was looking at him was, "that's SOME PIG."

Then to top it off they each got to walk through the pumpkin patch and pick their own pumpkin. Seth had his heart set on a tiny green one the size of an apple, and Jonathan went a little more traditional. Great times. :)

P.S. The only thing that would make this place cooler is if they used Case tractors, right Rob?

Classic outing with Grandpa

While we were in Mesquite Jonathan and Grandpa took a walk down to the baseball fields and found a "70's League" in full swing. And I mean full swing. These guys were all over 70, and they were simply incredible.

What could be cooler to a 5 year old boy than an outing, just him and Grandpa, to play at the park, watch baseball, and to have orange gatorade and a hot dog on a nice autumn day? Right out of a Norman Rockwell or something. I'm glad he's 5 now and he'll maybe remember fun times like this.

Typical Seth

Huge smile, silliness everywhere in his expression, and holding onto as many cars as possible. We're on our way to pick Jonathan up from school, which means I just woke Seth up from his nap. I don't know very many people who are this congenial minutes after being dragged out of peaceful slumber.

Boy oh boy oh boy! :)

We thought we were lucky having one boy. And now three! Seth knew it was a boy all along, and was extremely adamant about it. We should've given him more credit - maybe he knew something we didn't! Honestly, girls would be fun too, but it wouldn't hurt our feelings if we had a whole house full of boys.

The ultrasound technician was exceptionally throrough in her examination of the baby. I've never seen them check so many parts of the brain, or take so many pictures and measurements of multiple parts of the spine, just to mention a few areas of focus. It's nice to walk out of there and know that every single part of this child looks healthy. She did say he was a little bit on the big side, but that's not at all unusual for our babies. And we get to have another ultrasound in 6 weeks so they can check his thyroid growth. That will be fun with him being even older.

I just love knowing something about him now. There's something about seeing the baby, and knowing the gender that makes you feel even closer to the baby inside you.

Now for a name. . . As if we didn't exhaust all our resources coming up with names for the first two. . . Any good ideas?